Name: arab strap by weirdstorm
Duration: 3 min 55 s
Description: everyones favourite band the arab strap-done in the style of everyones other favourite band...arm.

In 2012, my electric piano & I were invited to be the "house band" for a live recording of a music interview show called The Low Times. The recording took place in front of a live audience at The Hideout in Chicago, Illinois. The guests that night were Richard Marx & Steve Albini. I taught myself instrumental versions of "Right Here Waiting" to play as Richard Marx's walk-on music & "Kittypants" by Shellac to play as Steve Albini's walk-on music. It felt absolutely crazy to perform Steve Albini's music for him as he walked on stage that night. I was too shy to introduce myself after the show, & despite ending up in the same room on a number of different occasions over the years, I never told him what his music meant to me, or that I vividly remembered the electric feeling of hearing Big Black's "The Power of Independent Trucking" on a college radio station in the backseat of my friend Dan's car during my junior year of high school, or that I bought every Big Black record that I could find in the years that followed. I never told him that I still had that angry, fucked-up sound in my head all those years later. Thank you & rest in peace Steve Albini.

Here is a twelve-year-old rehearsal tape of me playing "Kittypants" on my electric piano. I hope you enjoy it.

Kittypants (Shellac cover)

everyones favourite band the arab strap-done in the style of everyones other favourite band...arm.

arab strap

weirdstorm

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